| Description | This folder contains records regarding an 'Economic Survey on the Home Grown Timber Industry' and the utilisation of home grown timber. Material includes: a yield table and 'Report on Lord Clinton's Yield Table of Thinnings for Pit Timber'; an 'Economic Survey on the Home Grown Timber Industry, An Interim Report' for the National Home Grown Timber Council, and a sectional report on 'Transport'; notes on 'Home Grown Timber'; a 'Report of Committee on Home Grown Mining Timber Supplies'; a 'Revised Draft Specification for Timber Roadside Fencing and Gates, Including Quality Clauses, Permissable Species and Creosoting Rules, Suggested by their Forest Products Research Laboratory', for the British Standards Institute; a copy of a thesis by S Wilson, 'The Better Utilisation of Home Grown Timber'; a 'Memorandum on the use of Steel Supports in Place of Timber in the Coal Mines of Great Britain'; and correspondence between Wilfred E Hiley, Lord Clinton, and D Fraser. |